Artist Info
Catherine Dixon
Catherine Dixon is a designer, writer and teacher.
As a designer she has worked with text-based projects for publishers such as Penguin Books and Phaidon, including typographic covers for the award-winning Great Ideas series for Penguin Books.
As a writer and researcher she has a particular interest in letterforms, her Doctoral thesis focusing on the problems of describing typefaces. She also writes regularly on letterforms in environmental contexts, contributing to the website publiclettering.org.uk and co-authoring with Phil Baines the book “Signs: lettering in the environment”. In addition she is a regular contributor to Eye magazine, Matrix, and other journals,
She is a Senior Lecturer at Central Saint Martins (part of University of the Arts London) where she teaches typography on the Graphic Communication Design programme.
She co-curates the Central Lettering Record.
From 2011–12 she was a Visiting Professor at the University of São Paulo in Brazil.
BA (hons) Graphic Design
PgD in Communication Design
PhD Typography, 1995-2001, Central Saint Martins
